
Yesterday Intel announced a free performance boost for its 200S processors in the form of a Boost Overclocking Profile that you can enable in the BIOS. But while boxed processors permit enabling this without breaking warranty, Intel pointed out that warranties for PC purchases through system builders and OEMs are "provided exclusively" by those companies, not Intel.
The obvious question here is whether OEMs and system builders will honour warranties if this new Boost profile is enabled on systems bought from them. It's basically overclocking, after all.